City Name

• Argos is a city in the northeast Peloponnese in Greece. It shares this name with several other smaller towns in Greece.
  • Argos, is a village on Kalymnos in the northern part of the Dodecanese
  • Argos, is a village on the island of Kassos in the southern part of the Dodecanese
  • Argos Amphilochicum was an ancient settlement in Aetolia. The present name of the settlement is Amfilochiko Argos.
  • Argos Ippatum was an ancient settlement in Epirus
  • Argos Orestiko is a town in the southwest-central part of Kastoria

Argos has also lent its name to several towns in the New World, including: Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. ... Greece and the Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος Peloponnesos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. ... Pothia Kalymnos (Greek: Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island in the south-eastern Aegean Sea. ... The Dodecanese (Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa, meaning twelve islands) are a group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey. ... The ancient Region of Aetolia, Greece This article is about the ancient Greek region Aetolia. ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and... Kastoria (Greek: Καστοριά) is a city in northern Greece. ... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ...

• Argos, Indiana

Argos is a town located in Marshall County, Indiana. ...

Personal Name

• Argus (Argos) is the son of Zeus and Niobe. Zeus' first child by a mortal.
• Argos was also the name of the hero Odysseus' faithful dog, from Homer's Odyssey. recognized him after nineteen years of absence.
• In Greek mythology:
  • A 100-eyed giant (Argus Panoptes) who guarded Io.
  • The son of Jason and Medea. For the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed, see the Argo.

Hera/Juno, offered the head of Argus by Hermes, places his eyes in the peacocks tail, in a decoration by Jacopo Amigoni (ca 1682 - 1752) There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus: 1. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ... A mortal woman in Greek mythology, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and either Euryanassa, Eurythemista, Clytia, Dione, or Laodice, and the wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. ... In Greek mythology, Argos was Odysseus faithful dog. ... Odysseus and the Sirens. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek Ὀδυσσεία) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first of which is the Iliad. ... This article is about the mythological figure. ... Jason (Greek: Ίασων, Etruscan: Easun) is a hero of Greek mythology. ... Medea by Evelyn De Morgan In Greek mythology Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes (Georgian Ayeti) of Colchis (Georgian Kolkheti, now a territory of modern Georgia) and niece of Circe, and later wife to Jason. ... Jason (Greek: Ίασων, Etruscan: Easun) is a hero of Greek mythology. ... The Black Sea near the shore of Colchis. ... In Greek mythology, Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece. ...

Other Uses

• Argos is a major UK catalogue retailer.
• Argos, the short name for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
• Argos is a satellite-based system for environmental data collection.
• Argos is a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 universe.

See also: Argus (disambiguation) Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland with over 600 stores. ... The Toronto Argonauts are a Canadian Football League team based in Toronto, Ontario. ... The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football) is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. ... In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1, Argos (designation P3X-8596) is a planet with a temperate Mediterranean climate where the inhabitants emulate a Mycenaean/Greek culture. ... Argus has several meanings: Argus (or Argos) was the name of several figures in Greek mythology. ...